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Celebrating Earth Day, all of the students in kindergarten through sixth grade joined hands in one large circle surrounding the outside of the school building and passed the messae "Happy Birthday, Earth Day" from one to another.

Later students put their hands in the earth to plant seeds, pull weeds and clean up the school grounds.

They and other students at many of the schools in the county were learning the lessons of how to take care of the plant, celebrate nature and appreciate the resources the earth provides...

On Earth Day, people around the world came together, united in a celebration of friendliness to the earth and caring for our children's future... That's what it's really about. 

'Green' teams stay true to Earth Day's roots

By Oren Dorell, USA TODAY

Earth Day celebrants fixed trails, picked up trash and talked recycling at parks, workplaces and schools across the nation Tuesday, the 38th anniversary of the environmental holiday.

Earth Day was founded by Gaylord Nelson, a U.S. senator from Wisconsin, in 1970. He wrote he wanted to "infuse the student anti-war energy into the environmental cause." Now, corporations, governments and individuals pitch in.

•In Washington state, 18 volunteers repaired winter snow damage on the north side of Mount Rainier National Park, said Lauren Braden of the non-profit Washington Trails Association. "We've had record snowfall, so most of our work parties are working on lower elevation trails," Braden said.

•In Weyers Cave, Va., Blue Ridge Community College students made a statement with a huge display of trash, with recyclables sorted.

•In Albany, N.Y., the Office of General Services announced it is replacing foam polystyrene plates and cups with biodegradable products made from bamboo and grass at cafeterias that serve 9,500 state workers and visitors daily.

•In the nation's capital, Metro riders received free chocolate bars for saving 20 pounds of carbon emissions by riding the subway on Earth Day.

•In downtown Indianapolis, companies jumped at the chance to get rid of old computers, monitors and mice at the nation's first Million Square Foot eCycling Event, which collected more than 25,000 pounds of electronics.

•In Sioux Falls, Kali Drewes, 18, bagged trash with employees of the wireless company Unicel at Sertoma Park. "It's sad it takes Earth Day to get out and clean up," Drewes said.

Contributing: Erika Smith in Indianapolis; Christina Mitchell in Weyers Cave; Jon Walker in Sioux Falls; wire reports (source)

 And here is another beautiful story to round off Earth Day for 2008...

Students' Earth Day message: "Using tools to make it look cool"

By Mitch Fryer, LEADER TIMES

KITTANNING TWP. - Plant Earth received a helping hand from Kittanning Township Elementary yesterday.

Celebrating Earth Day, all of the students in kindergarten through sixth grade joined hands in one large circle surrounding the outside of the school building and passed the messae "Happy Birthday, Earth Day" from one to another.

Later students put their hands in the earth to plant seeds, pull weeds and clean up the school grounds.

They and other students at many of the schools in the county were learning the lessons of how to take care of the plant, celebrate nature and appreciate the resources the earth provides.

"It's a way to teach kids to take care of the air, water, land and animals," said teacher Sue Girardi of the all-day, all-out, schoolwide Earth Day program.

"It's teaching a responsibility to the environment."

Students worked on activities and projects in their classrooms and music and art rooms all week to prepare for Earth Day.

Everyone planted something. Everyone made something.

Grocery bags were decorated with Earth Day sayings, poems and designs and sent to a grocery store to be used at the checkouts.

The school held a rally about the hirstory of Earth Day. Students even made up their own Earth Day song for the occasion.

"We've been working on the courtyard, all the live long day... using all our tools, making it look cool."

The song is a good one for Earth Day, according to fourth grade student Austin Roncher.

"It's about the earth, us fixing it, cleaning it and helping it," he said.

Mitch Fryer can be reached at mfryer@tribweb.com 

(source)

Let us remember this,

Every day is Earth Day.  ~Author Unknown

 There is hope if people will begin to awaken that spiritual part of themselves, that heartfelt knowledge that we are caretakers of this planet.

~Brooke Medicine Eagle

 

"There is enough for all.
The earth is a generous mother; she will provide in plentiful abundance food for all her children if they will but cultivate her soil in justice and in peace."
Bourke Coekran

Earth Day 2008 falls on Tuesday, April 22nd.

• Earth Day is a name used by two different observances held annually in the (northern) spring, both intended to inspire awareness of and appreciation for the Earth's environment.
• Earth Day is held each year to promote awareness of environmental issues.
• It’s a special day to learn about our planet and how to take care of it.
• Kids can visit various Earth Day crafts, coloring pages, and activities.

The first Earth Day was in 1970...

On April 22, 1970, 20 million people across America celebrated the first Earth Day. It was a time when cities were buried under their own smog and polluted rivers caught fire.

Now Earth Day is celebrated annually around the globe.

Through the combined efforts of the U.S. government, grassroots organizations, and citizens like you, what started as a day of national environmental recognition has evolved into a world-wide campaign to protect our global environment.

Earth Day has no central organizing force behind it, though several nongovernmental organizations work to keep track of the thousands of local events in schools and parks that mark the day.

Earth Day Quotes

• The earth is what we all have in common.
  ~Wendell Berry, Author, farmer, cultural critic, 1934 -
• Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
  ~Mahatma Gandhi, Spiritual leader, political, 1869-1948
• As we grow older we should become not less radical but more so.
  ~Margaret Laurence, Author, environmentalist, 1926-1987
• You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet.
  ~Hal Borland, Author, 1900-1978
• I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.
  ~John Muir, Preservationist, 1838-1914
• For 200 years we've been conquering Nature.  Now we're beating it to death. ~Tom McMillan, quoted in Francesca Lyman, The Greenhouse Trap, 1990
• I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority.  ~Elwyn Brooks White, Essays of E.B. White, 1977
• Take nothing but pictures.
  Leave nothing but footprints.
  Kill nothing but time.
  ~Motto of the Baltimore Grotto, a caving society
• And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.    ~William Shakespeare
• Only when the last tree has died and the last river been poisoned and the last fish been caught will we realise we cannot eat money.    ~Cree Indian Proverb
 
• Man must feel the earth to know himself and recognize his values.... God made life simple.  It is man who complicates it.  ~Charles A. Lindbergh, Reader's Digest, July 1972
• Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.  ~Juvenal, Satires
• "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtfully committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
  Margaret Mead 

"How many brain scientists have been able to study the brain from the inside out? I've gotten as much out of this experience of losing my left mind as I have in my entire academic career."

Jill Bolte Taylor

Jill Bolte Taylor was a 37-year-old Harvard-trained brain scientist when a blood vessel exploded in her brain. One day, she woke up and realized she was having a massive stroke...

(Recorded February 2008 in Monterey, California. Duration: 18:44.)

She spoke at TED (which stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design - three wide-ranging subject areas that are, collectively, shaping our future.) Every year, 1300 of the world's leading thinkers and doers gather together for four days of networking, education and exposure to new ideas. Past speakers and performers have included Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Paul Simon, Richard Branson, Frank Gehry, Philippe Starck, James Watson, Billy Graham, Jane Goodall, Al Gore, and Bono.

However, TED is about much more than famous names, Jill says. It is about passion, laughter, beauty, and ingenuity. It is about ideas capable of changing the world, and she was given 18 minutes to share her personal story and an idea that she believed was worth spreading. She says her experience at TED was both phenomenal and life transforming. Her story is a powerful one of recovery and awareness.

"So who are we? We are the life force power of the universe, with manual dexterity and two cognitive minds. And we have the power to choose, moment by moment, who and how we want to be in the world. Right here right now, I can step into the consciousness of my right hemisphere where we are -- I am -- the life force power of the universe, and the life force power of the 50 trillion beautiful molecular geniuses that make up my form. At one with all that is. Or I can choose to step into the consciousness of my left hemisphere. where I become a single individual, a solid, separate from the flow, separate from you. I am Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor, intellectual, neuroanatomist. These are the "we" inside of me.

Which would you choose? Which do you choose? And when? I believe that the more time we spend choosing to run the deep inner balance circuitry of our right hemispheres, the more peace we will project into the world and the more peaceful our planet will be. And I thought that was an idea worth spreading."

(Read the transcript of her amazing speech here)

The "science" behind this states that everybody has 2 versions of themselves:

1. the identity they really walk around with = the shell
2. the person they really want to be = the core identity

The core identity is the true identity, held captive by lack of knowledge, and circumstance.

If you are working as a lawyer in a law firm, working 70hr weeks and not very satisfied, your shell dictates that you are a stressed out lawyer.
But, your core identity could be that of an artist. Or a Casanova. Or a rock star.
That's your core identity. That's who YOU want to be.

Most communication between people is surface to surface, shell to shell. That means, you hear someone's words, and based on those words, you comply...or not.

Our deepest core desires are never things such as 'make money', 'get out of the house', etc... If this is what you think it is, your brain is lying to you. It's never something like that. These are the just surface outcomes. The truth is, the whole point of ourselves is to create and to perpetuate experiences. Goals are meaningless.

If you think about what you want in life, you will probably find that it's not about money or wealth. It's experiences, as well as to perpetuate, and to create.

You need to know who you are, and who you want to be. But, how do you know?

THE QUESTION:

If there were no limitations or consequences, what would your perfect, average day look like?

Limitations means you don't have to worry about money, health, geography nor limiting people.

Consequences means it has to be something safe, not anything that will get you in trouble or arrested. Be wise.

Average means you could do it everyday and not get killed (this means your perfect day would not include climbing Mount Everest, for example.)

Ask yourself:

• Where would you live?
• What would your house look like?
• What time would you wake up?
• What would you do in the morning?
• What would you do in the first hour of your day?
• Who would you eat with?
• What would you eat?
• What would your friends be like?
• What would you do for personal fulfillment?
• What purpose would you strive for?
• What would your business be?
• What would you actually do for work?
• What are your clients like?
• What are your relationships like?
• What would you do for family time?
• What would you have for dinner?
• What would you talk about over dinner?
• What would you do at night?
• Who would you do it with?
• Where would you be?
• Where would you do it?
• What would your thoughts be as you go to sleep?

Your perfect day will help you identify who you really are, and what your core identity is.

Law of Attraction

When you have a picture on your mind of your core identity and your new life, you'll find that things start moving you towards that: you start attracting the right circumstances, the right people and so on... This is because you are more focused on your goals as you work towards them...

What we are really aiming for is this:

• experiences (because goals are meaningless);
• a new identity, and
• the sum of all this is Life.

Learn how to remove negative energy with the power of meditation.

I got a few comments following the last post in which I shared with you the study that revealed that A LOT of workers are chronically sleep deprived...

So I thought I'd just share with you just a few pointers to get you on the right track if you are suffering from lack of sleep. Please share your comments at the end of this post

According to Harvard Health Publications's Press release, Repaying Sleep debt, more than 60% of us don't regularly sleep the brain's required seven to nine hours of sleep per night.

This is quite a significant number of sleep-deprived people! But don't fear, there's hope. They also say that you CAN ward off the negative effect of sleep loss because you CAN repay even a chronic, longstanding sleep debt.

So how do we counter the effects of chronic sleep loss?

Harvard Women’s Health Watch suggests:

If you’ve missed 10 hours of sleep over one week, make up for it over the weekend and the following week. If you’ve missed sleep for decades, it could take a few weeks to repay the debt. Plan a vacation with a light schedule, and sleep every night until you wake naturally. Once you’ve determined how much sleep you need, factor it into your daily schedule.

BrainBasedBusiness further discussed this in an article last year, showing that this really has been/is an ongoing problem.

Dr. Mercola says in a short article about lengthening workweeks robbing people of their precious sleep:

While sleepy workers know they're not performing well, work is what's keeping them up at night. Workdays are getting longer and time spent working from home averages close to four-and-a-half hours each week.The average waking time is 5:35 AM, and the average bedtime is 10:53 PM.

The good news? It's not all bad news. You can do something about it.

I've also compiled a few tips for you, to get you started on helping yourself sleep better, ASAP:

8 tips to better sleep

• Don't nap too long during the day so you can sleep better at night
• Exercise regularly, earlier in the day, not before you sleep
• Finish eating at least two to three hours before you sleep
• Avoid alcohol, caffeine and nicotine before you sleep
• Maintain a regular sleep/wake schedule, including during weekends
• Make your sleep environment cool, peaceful and comfortable
• Use relaxation techniques if they help you sleep
• Start a relaxing bedtime before-you-sleep routine

However, the battle is only just beginning, because:

Bodies don't 'spring ahead'

By Kim Painter, USA TODAY

A bold prediction: A week from today you will be feeling sleepy, very sleepy.

You will have trouble getting out of bed. If you are a teenager, you will have even more trouble than usual. If you are an early-morning commuter, you may struggle to keep your eyes open as you drive along darkened streets.

What will trigger this mass bout of drowsy driving, this predictably mopey Monday? It will be the first weekday of daylight saving time — that once-a-year "spring ahead" that robs us of one hour of sleep (which is returned when clocks "fall back" in November).

It's just one hour, but experts in chronobiology — the study of our internal body clocks — say it takes most people several days to adjust. (The fall change also is disruptive, but less so.) One recent study from German researchers, published in the journal Current Biology, found that some habitual night owls have trouble getting enough sleep for weeks after the spring shift — which, in effect, demands that we all go to bed and get up an hour earlier.

At best, "we'll have a lot of groggy people on the highways the first couple of days," says Michael Smolensky...

..........(click here to continue reading this article)

You can also take a look at:

• Dr. Mercola's 33 Secrets to a Good Night's Sleep.
• 25 Tips For a Better Pre Sleep Ritual on Sleepybed.com.
• On Better Sleep by the Better Sleep Council.
• 10 tips for better sleep on MayoClinic.com.
• Tips for a Good Night's Sleep:Getting the Sleep you Need on Helpguide.org.

How well do YOU sleep?

"Nearly three in 10 workers have become very sleepy, or even fallen asleep, at work in the past month, according to a first-ever study on sleep and the workplace"

Stephanie Armour, USA Today

Sleep apnea is a common disorder: as common as adult diabetes according to the American Sleep Association. They also report that

Risk factors include being male, overweight, and over the age of forty, but sleep apnea can strike anyone at any age, even children.

and that:

Untreated, sleep apnea can cause high blood pressure and other cardiovascular disease, memory problems, weight gain, impotency, and headaches. Moreover, untreated sleep apnea may be responsible for job impairment and motor vehicle crashes.

It can result in excessive snoring with lapses in breathing, and extreme tiredness that may even lead to falling asleep while driving. However, many people snore but do not have sleep apnea. (read more about sleep apnea here and here).

Fortunately, there is treatment available for anyone who suffers from sleep apnea.

Lack of sleep catches up with today's workforce

By Stephanie Armour, USA TODAY

U.S. workers are silently suffering from a dramatic lack of sleep, costing companies billions of dollars in lost productivity, says a study out Monday.

Nearly three in 10 workers have become very sleepy, or even fallen asleep, at work in the past month, according to a first-ever study on sleep and the workplace by the non-profit National Sleep Foundation. The late-2007 survey was based on a random sample of 1,000 workers.

"It's a very expensive issue for employers, and it can be fatal, too," says Nilesh Dave, medical director of the Sleep and Breathing Disorders Center at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas. "The 24/7 global economy means work is now around the clock."

About 70 million Americans have a problem sleeping, according to the NSF.

Some employers, such as Union Pacific (UNP) railroad, are so concerned that they're now allowing workers to nap on the job. Employees also say it's a significant issue, causing them to drive drowsy or even fall asleep at their desks.

Ursula Forhan, 53, of Chicago, used to fall asleep at her desk. She was treated for sleep apnea and says she has no problems today.

"I would take a nap on the floor of my office, and my boss was so tolerant he would step over me," says Forhan, a paralegal in Chicago. She used to drive for work and had to roll down the windows to stay awake.

Among the survey's findings:

•Dangers on the road. Thirty-six percent of respondents say they have nodded off or fallen asleep while driving, including 26% who say they drive drowsy during the workday.

•Work performance. Twelve percent of respondents have arrived late to work in the past month because of sleepiness. Other problems cited: impatience with others, difficulty concentrating on job tasks and lower productivity.

•Work hours. Employees with more than one job report the highest rate of dissatisfaction with sleep: 43% say they get a good night's sleep only a few nights per month or less. Part-time workers report the highest rate of sleep satisfaction.

Several factors are driving the trend toward sleepier employees. Employees are putting in longer hours, in part due to increased pressure from employers to ramp up productivity. The study found that one-fourth of respondents have a workday that lasts between eight and nine hours, and another fourth say they work up to 10 hours a day.

Technology, which is supposed to enhance productivity, has also required employees to be available. "You're not disconnecting except when you hit the pillow," says Mark Rosekind, a consultant who worked on the survey.

(read this article here)

Related posts:

How to Wake Up and Have an Awesome Night’s Sleep

Napping: How To Do It… and Feel Good About It

30 Ways To Destroy A Hangover - The Ultimate Guide

How to Maintain and Increase Brain Activity Over the Long Haul

Discovering Peace … through White Noise?

A 61 Year Old Farmer Enters The World's Toughest Race...

There are several legends that share the discovery of a long-sought invention and how it was quickly replicated in only days... after everyone finally knew it was possible.

The fact that someone finally proved it could be done was all the others needed to finally create the invention themselves.

This story goes in a similar vein, but with a twist.

In 1983 a farmer from a sheep ranch entered the world's toughest ultra-marathon, an 545 mile (875km) run from Sydney to Melbourne in Australia.

Whereas other runners were under 30, trained specifically for this event, and had corporate sponsorships, Cliff Young was 61, ran sheep on a farm, and was laced in his work boots.

While the other runners followed the equation of 18 hours running, 6 hours sleeping per day, Cliff had no idea such a formula even existed.

And while the other runners focused intently, Cliff made time to wave to the onlookers and media cameras.

And with this back drop, how do you think it ended?

Cliff is now a legend.

He won that race not because of determination, cutting edge equipment, or innovative coaching.

He won because he walked up to that race with infinite possibilities.

Nothing was impossible to him.

And with his mind free of mental impediments, he was able to do what everyone else called impossible.

Cliff is someone we could all look up to.

When you look at what is and is not possible in your life, how much of that is real, and how much is simply imagined?

(Click Here to read this amazing story)

A new study sheds some light on how your mind combats negative events like death.

A study to be printed in the November issue of Psychological Science says that when faced with negative events (like your own death) the mind automatically triggers happy feelings. This is done as a sort of defense mechanism to keep us from falling into a depression due to the setbacks we encounter in our daily lives.

In the study, students were broken into 2 groups, one asked to contemplate their own death and the other to imagine dental pain. Afterwards, they were put through explicit emotion tests as well as implicit emotional tests. The study found:

There was no difference in scores between the groups on the explicit tests of emotion and affect. But in the implicit tests of nonconscious emotion — the wordplay — researchers found that the students who were preoccupied with death tended to generate significantly more positive-emotion words and word matches than the dental-pain group.

What does this mean? Our mind may just have an immune system that aids us in our psychological battles of facing rejection, aging, and the like. So, as we go through our days and inevitably face our challenges, remember - our mind is trying to help us! Use this fact as your first step towards building a strong positive outlook and getting the most from life. On that note, you should also check out the American Monk - some great (and free) lessons for developing your mind.

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The Top Productivity Blogs Collected by Social Rankings!

An incredible new website, Productivity Zen, identifies the top 15 productivity stories and blogs of the day by monitoring the buzz of the productivity blog community.

The developers of the site use a software called SocialRank to monitor each of the best productivity sites and determine the day's hottest articles and bloggers in the field.

According to the SocialRank team:

This is done by analyzing how sites and users link, connect, and discuss each other's content. Add a touch of math and what we have is a powerful filter into the hottest stories of the day.

Now you can find better productivity stories, learn more, and get updated... much faster and easier than before.

So far great sites like Zen Habits, Life Optimizer, Matt Idea, and Lifehack have been showing up on the top rankings for the site. But also some new faces that I urge all your productivity junkies to go check out!

It's so nice to be able to find stuff from within the longtail without having to deal with the complications of technorati and the sheer bias some some social networking sites.

Want to know more about these great sites? Visit the links below:

SocialRank
Productivity Zen